Taking another major leap in providing hassle-free services in a transparent manner, Punjab Revenue Department has decided to incorporate the email address, contact number and Aadhar number of the property owners in the Record of Rights (jamabandi).
The decision will come as a boon to the NRIs and Central Government employees, who are residing outside the state, said the state Revenue Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria on Wednesday.
He said that the Government would charge Rs 1,000 for the facility which would safeguard people’s ownership rights and would also make them feel secure from fraudulent sale of their property by swindlers.
“The fear of losing their land due to fraudulent means had become a nightmare for the NRIs. But, this facility would put a full-stop on fraud, forgery and cheating in property sale-purchase as the e-mail and telephone number would be available in the revenue record, which would facilitate the genuine buyers or sellers in contacting each other personally and it would also be a boon for the state exchequer,” said Sarkaria.
The Additional Chief Secretary-cum-Financial Commissioner Revenue MP Singh said that this facility would also make the procedure of summoning of parties in partition or girdawari cases and even in civil or criminal cases very easy as the summons can be served directly to the party concerned through e-mail or SMS or telephone call.
Notably, the Revenue Officers or Courts mostly feel helpless as the proper addresses of the co-sharers of the property, to be summoned in revenue court cases, are not available and sometimes because of the vested interests of the private parties, they usually hesitate to provide complete and proper addresses of the other co-sharers which ultimately becomes the main cause for the delay in partition and other civil cases.